A Study on Factors Inducing Disabled to Choose Entrepreneurship as Career

high. Most PWDs who remained unemployed wanted to work but they were denied opportunities to work. The society often undermines the abilities of PWDs, complicating the process of finding a paid employment for them. Employers may be reluctant to hire PWDs because of fear of additional cost to be incurred for accommodating their special needs. As a result, bulk of the PWDs are unemployed, inducing more and more PWDs to start their own business. Self-employment offers PWDs flexi working hours, providing them more time to concentrate on health, and freedom to work at their own place, accommodating their special needs. This paper makes an attempt to analyse the factors which might have motivated PWDs to choose entrepreneurship as their career option. 150 disabled entrepreneurs were selected using Convenient sampling method and a structured interview schedule was administered to them and their opinion about various factors which might have motivated them to select entrepreneurship as their career was collected in a Likert’s five point scale. The data collected were analysed using statistical tools of Mean, ANOVA, Factor Analysis, Cluster Analysis, Discriminant Analysis and Correspondence Analysis. Results reveal that PWDs are more pushed to entrepreneurship rather than being pulled to it.